Free Global Politics Documentaries

Watch this brutal documentary on the invasion of Mariupol, Ukraine, by Russian forces in 2022.

Edward Said's book Orientalism has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines since its publication in 1978.

In this streaming audio presentation from American Radio Works, listeners can hear a chronological history of the Korean War. Soldiers, historians and military leaders explain how this "forgotten war" was an essential event that defined global politics for the next 40 years.

In 1999, Serb death squads attacked the ethnic Albanian village of Cuska and left 41 unarmed civilians dead....

The Coming War on China, from award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn't - that the world's greatest military power, the United States, and the world's second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war.

In this hour long audio documentary from American Public Media, Chris Farrell and John Biewen jump all over the world to see how the latest wave of globalization is affecting people from Pittsburgh to Bangladesh to India to China.

In My Name is Iran, released by American Audio RadioWorks on streaming audio, we hear from modern Iranian voices as they speak on their current experience under this controversial government...

1984 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog about children soldiers in Nicaragua. The film focuses on a group of Miskito Indians who used children soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.

"This Is What Winning Looks Like" is a disturbing new documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces as well as the reduced role of US Marines due to the troop withdrawal.

The global economy is changing the way we think about food, from the kinds of things we eat, to the way food is grown and harvested....